Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Over 5000 persons were arrested
IN vera Cruz last year, and 1895 of
item We're sentenced to Imprisonment.
An american art student in Paris
can have the best his masters can give
u he Attends to business and heeds in
structaoa Nationality means nothing.
! "A law of Chihuahua makes it a.
Unable offense not to vote at an cleo
ION A married man may vote at
eighteen, but one not married can not
vote until he is twenty-five.
1t is estimated that the total pro-
-duction of coffee in the world is about
500. 600 tons to 650.0O0 tons. of which
Brazil alone produces between $40, 900
and $50, 900 tons and Java 60, 600 to
80. 600 tons. 's
About fifty miles west of Algiers,
among the ruins at Cherchell, the
French have unearthed colossal statues
of Jupiter, Venus and Hercules. In
an old palace a fine mosaic has been
found.
Not long since there might be
seen in the window of dirty little
shop In an obscure part of London
this ann ouncement: Goods removed,
messages taken, carpets beat and
poetry composed on any subject -
LiUing Church.
The royal English plate is usually
kept in two strong rooms at Windsor
castle and is valued at $4,000, 900.
The gold service. which was purchased
by George w, dimes 100 persons. and
the silver wine-cooler. which he bought
about the same time holds two men,
who could sit in it comfortably. 1t is
fnclosed with plate-glass and the
splendid chasing occupied two years.
"A curious geological phenomenon
exists in the vicinity of Behring's
Straits. At Elephant Point. Kotzbue
Sounds a ridge. two miles wide and
two hundred and fifty feet high seems
TO be vast mass of ice, thinly covered
with clay and vegetable mold. In this
soil birches, alders and berry bearing
plants grow. luxuriantly, with the
stratum of perpetual ice as the under
lying rock within less than a foot
from their roots.-Ihe Farmer and
Manufacturer.
In Cuba woman never loses her
maiden name. After marriage she
adds her husbands name to her own.
In being spoken of she is always called
by her Christian and maiden names.
To a stranger it is often quite task to
find out whose wife woman is. Never
hearing the wife called by the hus-
bands name, one naturally does not
associate them together. The children
take the names of both parents, but
place the mothers name after the
father s.-BoStoas Budget.
The fortress of Gibraltar is declar-
ed to be no longer impregnable. The
armament of the famous stronghold
consists almost entirely of old-time
.smooth-bore guns. There is not
Shotgun, or a machine-gun, or a
.quick-fring gun of any kind on the
rock. and only two torpedo-boats of
questionable value for water service. |
Amy iron-c clad could knock the whole |
face of the rock to pieces without re-
ceiving a shot in return, so far as the |
fortress is Chicago NeUs. |
i The mining engineer, NJ. Dahl, |
who has been examining the North of |
Norway on behalf of the Norwegian |
Government, states in his report that |!
all the rivers in the interior of Finn |
marker, district of fifty Norwegian
square miles, carry gold. The metal
is found in sand contained in little
,boilows, which by their shape prevent
its being washed away by the water.
The weight of the gold grains varies
from ten miligrammes to one gramme.
Platinum is also found occasionally.-
Philadelphia Press. -